High Quality 180g Vinyl Mono Pressing! Re-mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
Arguably one of the most exciting saxophone soloists in jazz history, Kirk was a post-modernist before that term even existed. Kirk played the continuum of jazz tradition as an instrument unto itself; he felt little compunction about mixing and matching elements from the musics history, and his concoctions usually seemed natural, if not inevitable.
Third Dimension was the debut album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk originally released as Triple Threat on the King label in 1956. The original album received limited distribution and only became widely known after it was re-released a few years prior to Kirk's death. The album features the first recorded examples of Kirk's trademark playing of multiple wind instruments at the same time as well as two tracks ("Stormy Weather" and "The Nearness of You") where he overdubbed manzello and tenor saxophone. Kirk would later state that the album "was about the third overdub record in black classical music".
Features:
High-quality 180g Vinyl
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Re-mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Analogue limited edition
Mono
Musicians:
Roland Kirk, tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch
James Madison, piano
Carl Pruitt, bass
Henry Duncan, drums
Selections:
Side One:
1. Roland's Theme
2. Slow Groove
3. Stormy Weather
Side Two:
1. The Nearness of You
2. A La Carte
3. Easy Living
4. Triple Threat
Arguably one of the most exciting saxophone soloists in jazz history, Kirk was a post-modernist before that term even existed. Kirk played the continuum of jazz tradition as an instrument unto itself; he felt little compunction about mixing and matching elements from the musics history, and his concoctions usually seemed natural, if not inevitable.
Third Dimension was the debut album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk originally released as Triple Threat on the King label in 1956. The original album received limited distribution and only became widely known after it was re-released a few years prior to Kirk's death. The album features the first recorded examples of Kirk's trademark playing of multiple wind instruments at the same time as well as two tracks ("Stormy Weather" and "The Nearness of You") where he overdubbed manzello and tenor saxophone. Kirk would later state that the album "was about the third overdub record in black classical music".
Features:
High-quality 180g Vinyl
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Re-mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Analogue limited edition
Mono
Musicians:
Roland Kirk, tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch
James Madison, piano
Carl Pruitt, bass
Henry Duncan, drums
Selections:
Side One:
1. Roland's Theme
2. Slow Groove
3. Stormy Weather
Side Two:
1. The Nearness of You
2. A La Carte
3. Easy Living
4. Triple Threat
